Posted by DLP on November 20, 2000 at 09:53:25:

In Reply to: reflux posted by cheryl ayers on November 19, 2000 at 20:33:04:

: Does anyone have trouble taking all of the reflux
: medicines? With me they all cause either muscle
: and joint pain

Yes, I can't take the PPI's. Prevacid and Aciphex give me horrible muscle pain and lightheadedness, and Prilosec gives me diarrhea, dry cough, headache and extreme nervousness. I tried OTC Pepcid and it gave me chest pains. The gaviscon doesn't give me any side effects.

At this point I'm pretty discouraged and guess I will look into the Nissen surgery. Don't want to get it done, though, since I've heard a lot of horror stories about it!